My Heart's In The Highlands
Scottish Poem By Robert Burns
My Heart's In The Highlands is a Scottish song and poem written by Robert Burns in 1789 and sung to the tune Failte na Miosg.Related Scottish Country Dances
Farewell To The Highlands (Davis)Farewell To The Highlands (Derrick)
Farewell To The North
My Heart's In The Highlands By Robert Burns
Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the North,
The birth-place of Valour, the country of Worth;
Wherever I wander, wherever I rove,
The hills of the Highlands for ever I love.
The birth-place of Valour, the country of Worth;
Wherever I wander, wherever I rove,
The hills of the Highlands for ever I love.
Chorus
My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here,
My heart's in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer;
Chasing the wild-deer, and following the roe,
My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go.
Farewell to the mountains, high-cover'd with snow,
Farewell to the straths and green vallies below;
Farewell to the forests and wild-hanging woods,
Farewell to the torrents and loud-pouring floods.
Chorus
My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here,
My heart's in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer;
Chasing the wild-deer, and following the roe,
My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go.
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Robert Burns Detail
"Portrait Of Burns" Alexander Nasmyth (1758-1840), c. 1787
The Online Scots Dictionary Translate Scots To English.
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